Fordlândia Reimagined: Electric Dreams in the Forgotten City of the Amazon
In the late 1920s, industrialist Henry Ford attempted something no entrepreneur had ever dared: he tried to transplant a piece of American industrial civilization into the heart of the Amazon rainforest. The result was Fordlândia—a planned company town built by Ford Motor Company along the Tapajós River in Brazil. Today, the ruins of Ford’s grand…